Reply #143: A constitutional crisis in a Prez election throws it into the House. We still would have gotten Bush [View All]

[stevenleser]

The key moment when the problems with Election 2000 became unfixable in terms of the rightful winner winning was when the Florida state legislature and senate voted to give Bush Florida's electors. Anything after that which contradicted it would have sent two sets of electors to DC to vote in the electoral college which would have triggered the election being thrown into the House. The Republicans controlled the House and more than half the state delegations at the time the electoral college met so we would have gotten Bush.

Even worse, this throws the VP election into the senate where at the time, Democrats still controlled. We would have gotten VP Lieberman and there is no telling what that would have done for Lieberman. He might have had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 2008 as a result.